MLabs

General Partner

New York, New York, United States · Full-time

No sponsorship$250k-$300kDetected 23 days ago

Distributed SystemsLeadershipMentoring

About the role

The role is based full-time on-site in New York City to ensure direct, high-touch engagement with incoming startup cohorts.
Proven Founder Track Record: Prior professional experience successfully establishing, scaling, and leading a technology startup as a primary founder or early executive, with a nuanced understanding of the 0-to-1 operational lifecycle.

Founder Mentorship & Strategic Advisory: Deliver rigorous, structured feedback and tactical insights to incoming startup teams navigating the accelerator pipeline.
Fundraising & Capital Preparation: Work hands-on with early-stage teams to architecture, refine, and optimize institutional investor pitches ahead of designated Demo Days.
Manage investor matching pipelines and provide high-touch support to secure structured seed-stage closures.
Admissions Selection & Investment Conviction: Lead formal interview frameworks and thorough evaluations of early-stage applicants.
Develop clear investment and admission conviction based on early operational signals, macroeconomic market trends, and technical founder capabilities.
Deliver rigorous, structured feedback and tactical insights to incoming startup teams navigating the accelerator pipeline.
Work hands-on with early-stage teams to architecture, refine, and optimize institutional investor pitches ahead of designated Demo Days.

If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of your application, please assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

Track record of deploying early-stage capital or executing successful institutional investments in seed or pre-seed technology entities.
(Nice to Have) Venture Architecture Experience: Track record of deploying early-stage capital or executing successful institutional investments in seed or pre-seed technology entities.

Actively guide founders toward establishing product-market fit, structuring growth frameworks, and refining core product strategies.

$250K - $300K We are hiring on behalf of our client who operates as the premier, market-leading startup accelerator platform dedicated exclusively to backing, mentoring, and scaling elite Web3, cryptocurrency, and decentralized infrastructure founders.
On behalf of this client, an exceptional, highly entrepreneurial executive is sought to join the leadership team as a General Partner.
In this capacity, the successful candidate will assume a pivotal role in mentoring portfolio founders, evaluating and admitting high-potential teams, and strategically guiding early-stage startups through their critical operational, growth, and capitalization journeys from cohort admission through to seed-stage fundraising rounds.
The role is based full-time on-site in New York City to ensure direct, high-touch engagement with incoming startup cohorts.
Founder Mentorship & Strategic Advisory: Deliver rigorous, structured feedback and tactical insights to incoming startup teams navigating the accelerator pipeline.
Actively guide founders toward establishing product-market fit, structuring growth frameworks, and refining core product strategies.

Act as a primary trusted advisor and sounding board to portfolio executives during complex inflections, including product pivots, co-founder equity alignment challenges, and high-stakes operational transitions.
Demonstrated analytical capacity to critically assess the capabilities, structural ambition, and strategic vision of technical founders and emerging markets.
Comprehensive structure consisting of a competitive base salary paired with significant equity allocations/network alignment incentives.
Interview Process Interested executives should prepare for an intensive, multi-stage evaluation sequence designed to assess technical conviction, ecosystem vision, and operational alignment:

Collaborative operational environment alongside alumni from top-tier technology platforms (such as Meta, WhatsApp, Coinbase, and Y Combinator).
At MLabs, we are committed to offer equal opportunities to all candidates.
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Commitment to Equality and Accessibility: At MLabs, we are committed to offer equal opportunities to all candidates.

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